Mainly thanks to a superb performance in the second Madison, South Africa’s Jean Pierre van Zijl and his French team-mate Robert Sassone got back to the top spot at the end of Saturday’s session at the “Palais des Sports”. They regained the lead after they managed to put one lap into their main rivals, Alexander Aeschbach and Franco Marvulli, and are now five points clear of the Swiss pair, who lost one position in spite of the good results they had in more than one race (Sprints, Elimination Race, Scratch).

It looks like overall victory has turned into a matter of two teams only anyway, as Italy’s Villa and Quaranta (winners of the Team Elimination on Saturday) are trailing two laps – and almost 50 points – behind the leading pairs. France’s Perque and Neuville took over the fourth spot from Slovakia’s Laska and Zibka, who moved down to fifth overall, while also Belgians De Neef and Van Mechelen fell one place into sixth.

As for the Sprinters Competition, the French riders did not dominate the way they did 24 hours before, and even lost to the Germans in the Golden Sprint Team Race, such that the main star of the night was Jens Fiedler, but nevertheless they still keep the lead in all three contests, with Arnaud Tournant leading the "Golden Sprint", and Laurent Gané at the top of the two other Classifications.

Francois Pervis and Franck Dirivaux were the "heroes of the day" among the "Espoirs", as they were at the front of both the Night and Overall Classifications, although the race is still wide open.